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Pestle (Image withheld, pending review)
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of and possibly excavated by Colonel Bennett H. Young (1843-1919, Confederate cavalry officer, amateur archaeologist, and author of works on Kentucky archaeology); purchased by George Heye from Colonel Young in 1915.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 600 BC-AD 500 (Early to Middle Woodland period)
- Catalog Number
- 4/7862
- Barcode
- 047862.000
- Culture/People
- Probably Adena or Hopewell (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Possible excavator
- Colonel Bennett H. Young, Non-Indian, 1843-1919
- Previous owner
- Colonel Bennett H. Young, Non-Indian, 1843-1919
- Seller
- Colonel Bennett H. Young, Non-Indian, 1843-1919
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Object Name
- Pestle (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground
- Place
- Lewis County; Kentucky; USA
- See related items
- Adena (archaeological culture)
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Record ID
- NMAI_51294
- Usage
- CC0
